Pedestal
Category
Furniture
Date
1770 - 1820
Materials
Scagliola, white marble
Measurements
117 cm (Height); 41 cm (Diameter); 100 cm (Circ)
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 487079
Summary
A pair of column pedestals, part of a larger group of pedestals, late eighteenth/ early nineteenth century, decorated in scagliola simulating Yellow Sienna marble, on a white marble moulded plinth.
Provenance
By descent, until the death in 1952 of the 3rd Lord Leconfield, who had given Petworth to the National Trust in 1947, and whose nephew and heir, John Wyndham, 6th Lord Leconfield and 1st Lord Egremont (1920-72) arranged for the acceptance of the major portion of the collections at Petworth in lieu of death duties (the first ever such arrangement) in 1956 by H.M.Treasury.